Outreach content

I have been the leading author of the following In-Situ use case:

• Ground Truth for Waters
• Fighting the Heatwave
• For every breath we take

I have also been the leading author of the following article:

• Helping take Earth’s pulse

I have been the leading author of the following CLMS use cases:

• CLMS helps protect Mediterranean wine from impending menace
• A recipe to bring nature back to Izmir
• A method to combat the Urban Heat Island effect

• First General Assembly of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service – Six Takeaways Unveiled. This article was published as part of the “Observer” weekly series of outreach articles on Copernicus, the Earth-observation component of the EU Space Programme.
• When the ground validates the sky: how field data enable satellite monitoring of ground motion

As the project manager of the support office of Copernicus (the Earth Observation component of the EU Space Programme) I have designed and coordinated the development of Copernicus promotional materials, including digital materials and the following dedicated podcast series:

• Let’s Talk EU Space

I have been the primary author of posts for the ESO Blog and ESO Pictures of the Week.

Blog posts:

• The story of our quest for Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way. Focus: The fascinating journey of discovering a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy and the groundbreaking technology behind these observations. This blog post was published just one week before the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration unveiled the first-ever image of Sagittarius A* (read this ESO press release, to which I have contributed, or watch this ESO video explainer, whose script I have co-authored).
• Unfolding the heavens. Focus: how James Webb — the space telescope launched by NASA, ESA and the Canadian Space Agency in December 2021 — and ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will cooperate to solve the mysteries of the Universe and spark a new era of astronomical discoveries.
• VLTI, your (birth) story goes on! Focus: the 20th anniversary of the first fringes of ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). For this post I interviewed Philippe Gitton (optical engineer at ESO) and Markus Schöller (staff astronomer at ESO). This is the second part of a series of two posts on this topic.
• Blow out your twenty candles, VLTI! Focus: the 20th anniversary of the first fringes of ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). For this post I interviewed Françoise Delplancke-Ströbele (Executive Officer for the Directorate of Engineering at ESO) and Pierre Kervella (Astronomer at Paris Observatory LESIA and former ESO Staff and Fellow in Chile). This is the first part of a series of two posts on this topic.
• Rescuing the stars. Focus: what the astronomical community is doing to protect the night sky from threats such as light pollution and increasing low-orbit space activity. For this blog post I interviewed Andrew Williams and Giuliana Rotola, external relations officer and former research intern at ESO respectively.

Pictures of the week:

• A village in the desert?
• Taming the sky
• Sunrise at Cerro Armazones
• When giants meet
• Enviable views
• Bumps in the heavens
• Creator of stars
• It’s a car! It’s a train! No, it’s Jupiter!
• Family tradition
• Fisheye on the galaxy
• Falling from the stars
• A rift in the sky
• A celestial arch illuminates the desert
• A cosmic quartet

I have also been the leading writer of the webpage presenting the CONCERTO instrument on the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) operated by ESO, and one of the leading writers of ESO’s outreach page on interferometry.

• I wrote these three articles as part of my final assignment for a module on online and media writing at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol, UK). The module spanned ten weeks of online coursework from April to July 2022 (see the Science Communication Section):
  • Astronomers find the first isolated black hole ever observed (news story)
  • Asteroids striking the Earth: how likely is that? (feature story)
  • Sorry, your zodiac sign is wrong (blog post)

• Una nuova misura per la velocità di espansione dell’Universo (Publication in Italian)
  • A new measurement of the expansion velocity of the Universe presented by the H0LiCOW Collaboration.
  • Publication date: 21 March 2017
  • Publisher: Galileo

• Observing the invisible collisions of intermediate mass black holes
  • An outreach summary about the search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass black hole binaries I have carried out for my PhD thesis (see the Research section). This article is part of the series of outreach summaries on LIGO scientific publications.
  • Publication date: 9 April 2014
  • Publisher: LIGO Scientific Collaboration

• When nature came back to the cities

• Lighthouse solutions for urban sustainability
  • A non-technical summary of the European research project STARDUST. I have written this article as the STARDUST communication and dissemination leader.
  • Publication date: 15 December 2020
  • Publisher: Eurescom

• Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore coordinates the PROTON project to fight organized crime and terrorism
  • A non-technical summary of the EU-funded research project PROTON. I have written this article as the PROTON communication and dissemination leader.
  • Publication date: 17 November 2018
  • Publisher: United Nations Academic Impact

• Quando i Nobel si unirono contro l’atomica
  • Publication date: 22 May 2017
  • Focus: the the Russell-Einstein Manifesto.

• Là dove riposano i Nobel
  • Publication date: 17 April 2017
  • Focus: the cemetery in Göttingen (Germany), the final resting place of numerous Nobel Prize laureates.

• Bertrand Russell, il matematico della pace
  • Publication date: 30 January 2017
  • Focus: a short biography of Bertrand Russell